Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 2.10. 2007

Government allotted emission permits to firms today

The government allotted permits for carbon dioxide emissions among particular enterprises for years 2008 to 2012. The Cabinet stemmed from the total yearly amount of permissions 86,8 million by one ton which were approved by Brussels to the Czech Republic. Originally the government asked more and owing to reduction it brought a legal action against the European Commission, however, by a decision of the court it has to respect the Commission's opinion. “We introduced a methodology of permission allotment which is fair”, Martin Bursík, the minister of Environment said today at a press conference after the end of government negotiation. In contradiction to the foregoing period when the permissions were allotted according to branches the present draft divides pollution sources according to amount of emissions.

State is under threat to pay billions for collective farms

The Czech state is under threat of billions crowns in compensation and fines and protracted law suits in the Strasbourg court. Owners of flats for renting will be soon in their complaints to the court followed by people with whom agricultural cooperatives have not yet settled their engagements arisen within their transformation. That all by two year, a vice-president of the Union of Land Owners and Private Farmers Jaromír Morávek reported for Aktuálně.cz.

ACH: There is threat of crisis of pig breeders in the Czech Republic; prices of meat will grow

According to the Agrarian Chamber there is a threat of crisis of pig breeders and associated processing industry. A long-term trend of reduction of numbers of pigs and their breeders in the country deepened a steep growth of cereal prices. Already now the Czech Republic is not self-sufficient in production of pig meat and if the fall will further continue, we will loose an influence on the domestic market and prices of meat in shops will grow steeply, the president of Agrarian Chamber Jan Veleba said to journalists today.

Czech will pay significantly more for milk and yoghurts

Customers in Czech shops have to prepare for significant rise in price of milk and milk products. “We buy milk now for prices almost by fifty percent higher; it has to show itself in the price”, a source from one of the local chains reported for the daily Aktuálně.cz provided anonymity. A rapid growth is reported from surrounding countries, especially from Germany. Somewhere prices of milk and other milk products increased by as much as fifty percent. Such steep growth will not be obviously faced by the Czech Republic. Despite the fact the Czech will have to pay more for milk, cheeses and yoghurts. Estimations speak about minimally ten to twenty percents already during this month.